So it should come as no surprise that the Establishment Party is looking to pass a bill that would allow the 9,600+ different state and local governments to tax the Internet. Behold the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA).

Current law dictates that a state can only require a business to collect its sales tax if it is physically present within its boundaries….

(The MFA) would countenance an enormous expansion in state tax collection authority by wiping away the “physical presence standard,” a baseline protection that shields taxpayers from harassment by out of state collectors….
Dismantling this protection for remote retail sales would create a very slippery slope for states to attempt collection of business or even income taxes from out of state entities.... (The MFA will) forc(e) online retailers to calculate and remit to more than 9,600 distinct taxing jurisdictions.

As per usual, when someone in DC says “fairness” - grab your wallet, because they are about to do so. The MFA is a gi-normous, omni-directional, multitudinous-government tax and power grab - and a colossal compliance headache for just about every U.S. business.

It on May 6 passed the Senate - with twenty-one Republican votes. And now, even more inexplicably, House Republicans are taking the lead on ramming it through.
H.R.684 - Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 Sponsor: Rep. Steve Womack (Republican-AR) Co-Sponsors: 66 - 24 of whom are Republicans.

(Republican) Rep. Bob Goodlatte To Move Forward With Online Sales Tax Bill
House GOP Takes Step on Internet Sales Tax Legislation
Yet another example of Republican anti-Conservative ideological muddle. Is it any wonder the Party brand is so horrendously damaged?
And yet another example of the bipartisan DC Establishment forcing upon us a law we don’t want.

New Poll Shows Marketplace Fairness Act Universally Opposed
Is it any wonder Congress consistently polls below the margin of error?
Republicans should take note - those two facts are not unrelated. If they spent more time in opposition to Democrats - and less to We the People - they would unify much of the nation and start seriously winning many more elections.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/22/Republicans-Now-Leading-the-Push-to-Tax-the-Internet

State republicans. Good idear tho. Amazons got unfair advantage. They also can lose money and keep selling stuff.

Bob Badespresso Wrote:
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> State republicans. Good idear tho. Amazons got
> unfair advantage. They also can lose money and
> keep selling stuff.

Amazon shouldn't have to pay State tax if they don't have offices in that state.

This is just more crazy republicans trying to line their pockets taxpayer dollars.

Internet taxes are bunch crap. I pay for my use of the internet every month to my provider. Tax for WHAT?

Sales tax is on state citizens. Stores are just collecting taxes.

Bixby Burns Wrote:
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> Sales tax is on state citizens. Stores are just
> collecting taxes.

The tax is collected from businesses to pay their use of county or state resources. IE sewage, health department and fire inspections.

How are Republicans "ramming this through" when only 24 of 66 co-sponsors are Republicans? lol Typical Breitbart article (two months old btw) which tries to put pressure on Republicans in the direction the writer likes. From that perspective, the reality is closer to being that it's not that Republicans are leading this, it's more that any are involved at all.

Hate to break it to you but, in one of the few examples that exists these days, this one actually is bipartisan. It also has all kinds of various outside groups from opposite ends of the spectrum supporting it from unions to conservative think tanks. Although it's kind of gone nowhere since. And lacking that Amazon, which opposes the approach, has started collecting sales tax in VA independent of it anyway.

Let's just Boehner and crew do their usual "we're not going to let a vote happen to find out if it passes."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/10/26/amazons-in-favour-of-the-online-sales-tax-bill-now/

See: Tom Worstall, Forbes 10/26/2013, "Amazon's in favor of the online sales tax bill now."

" 'It is also backed by many governors of both parties, and most democratic lawmakers in Washington. Many online merchants oppose it." '